Each year Christina, Kasana and I embark on a reading challenge to share books with one another to keep our reading fresh through books of different genres, especially those we don't normally gravitate towards.

Listen to find out each of our favourites, which reads suprised us the most, and what we are looking forward to reading in 2026!

Aaaaand we're back! After an unexpected but needed break, I am back to recording, editing and sharing about the books that I've been loving lately. In this episode I talk about what makes a comfort read for me and talk about a new favourite series and an old one and share some of the characteristics of those stories that make me love them as much as I do.

On this episode, I share some of the mystery and fantasy books that I enjoyed over the first half of 2025. I don't read a ton of mystery novels, but The Maid Series by Nita Prose is one of the exceptions! And then I share about The Remnant Chronicles (Kiss of Deception, Heart of Betrayal and Beauty of Darkness) and Dance of Thieves Duology by Mary E Pearson.

In today's episode, I catch you up on the books that I read in April and some of my thoughts related to them! I finished the Little House series, enjoyed two new releases by Nicole Deese and Nita Prose and dove into the series Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

In this episode, my sister Christina and friend Kasana joined me to discuss the book The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray. This book, with three different timelines, covers three women and their connection to the castle in the French Revolution and First and Second World Wars. Their stories, woven together, speak of how courage can look different for various people and how to balance conflicting responsibilities in difficult circumstances.

There are light references to the plot throughout the episode but we tried to speak in generalities so as to not give things away!

In this episode, I discuss the historical fiction books that I have been able to enjoy this year which includes my favourite book of the year so far! Historical fiction is one of the ways that I get inspired to learn more about specific periods and people and so I am able to talk a bit about that in this episode! Highlighted are some of the following books: The Lion Women of Terhan by Marjan Kamali, Rilla of Ingleside by LM Montgomery, The Warden by Anthony Trollope and Miss Morgans Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles.

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Anne Morgan Silent Film Footage

https://youtu.be/yuWG5FkcfrU?si=n1d1cPBoQurZaYkj

Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green was one of my top reads of the year thus far. It had a lot of different elements - history, science, personal stories, and global health - and was a thoughtful and well-researched examination of why TB continues to be the world's deadliest infectious disease, despite the fact that we know how to cure it. You don't need a health or science background to read this book - it is approachable and the way that he uses personal stories makes for what I found to be a very engaging read. Through this episode I give a bit of a synopsis of the book as well as discuss some of the concepts that stuck out to me.

Dive into this episode to read about some of my 2024-2025 non-fiction/memoir reads! There should be a little bit of something for everyone! Do you like presidential biographies? I got you! Faith stories? Got that as well! What about some a book to motivate you to declutter and save money? It's all here!